But there is generally little incentive to make votes private because in general legislators want to engage in credible credit-claiming (including about margins of passage and rates of bipartisanship) and parties want to preserve the whip as well.
That's definitely not a standard practice, but I can see how that would happen by mistake (e.g. forget to remove FSD from the spec sheet) and then be difficult to get fixed. It's near-impossible to reach the right human at Tesla, so when things fall through the cracks, it's a nightmare. I suspect that's the issue OP is quoting, too -- there's likely a reasonable person at Tesla who can and would help if they knew about this story.
https://electrek.co/2020/02/07/tesla-takes-away-autopilot-us...
If I run out of gas on the side of the highway, I call AAA and they can deliver me a couple of gallons of gas or I can walk to a gas station. If your EV runs out of juice, you have to have it towed to a charging station.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15346575/placebo-on-wheel...
The programmer told me to just restart the job, I noted that on the form. I came in the next day and my boss called me into his office, his boss was there too. They wanted to know why I restarted the job, which caused all kinds of corruption to the database. They had spent the better part of the day recovering the database, then running the batch job, which meant that that system was unavailable for use by the agents.
The programmer swore up and down he did not tell me to restart the job, said I never called him! He was that deep into sleep. But on the form I noted the time I called him and his response to restart the job, so they believed me.
This highlights a problem with people responsible for multi-million dollar systems being woken up in the middle of the night and having to make quick critical decisions.
I've had more confused than upset, but Samsung straight-up refuses to accept email addresses with "samsung" in them. I'm not sure what they think they're accomplishing.
I think I get more spam from hacked/leaked email databases than sold ones. Dropbox is the worst (signed up and used it briefly over a decade ago, and now suffer an eternity of spam).